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Re: Queen Candy recipe

Re: Queen Candy recipe

The tricky thing about queen candy is it needs to be PERFECT in consistancy to stay in the candy chute without allowing gravity to slide it out-but without being so hard bees can't chew through it in a 3 day period.
I have YET to perfect my recipe or I'd certainly share it.

Re: Queen Candy recipe

In my quest to find something readily available that wouldnt need mixed up I discovered that excellent results with JZ BZ queen cages could be obtained by slicing across a circus peanut to make 5 (I think) pieces and rolling them into a slightly tapered plug using your thumb and index finger then inserting the plug from the inside before snapping them shut. It sounds kind of crazy but we were getting pretty consistent 72 hour introductions as long as the cage is installed candy side down and the plug is tapered enough so that the fat end seats securely. I tried a number of different candies and regular marshmallows and the circus peanuts won hands down. Occassionally we found small marshmallows still in place over a week later. Gummie candies are a definite no.

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